Dave Burns wrote: >> I realize that these names are not known to the real world. >> But I imagine that there must be some way of sending email >> from one machine on a LAN to another > > I can think of four ways, there could be more: > * use 'real' DNS > * make your own DNS server locally > * put name in /etc/hosts > * use raw IP number > > /etc/hosts is easy, but will break whenever the IP numbers change. All the names of local machines appear in /etc/hosts in all machines with fully qualified names, and their (local) IP addresses never change: 192.168.2.1 alfred alfred.gayleard.com 192.168.2.2 helen helen.gayleard.com -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list